Chicago: A Microcosm of Obama Years

By David Hunter, on January 12th, 2017

Ignoring Chicago’s problems, an aloof ideologue to the last

It’s appropriate that Barack Obama gave his “farewell address” in his political hometown. Against this backdrop of pervasive and obvious despair, Mr. Obama has completely ignored the results of his disastrous tenure. While he lives as a pretender, a deluded Great Gatsby golfer, he struts and preens as America’s first black president. In retrospect, all empty symbolism obscured by the reality of his abject failures.

America has paid a terrible price for embracing aloof Obama’s cult of personality; the superficiality of identity politics that has taken America to the brink. The only value in Mr. Obama’s self-serving Chicago bloviating is in one word: goodbye.